Hawaiian Airlines is expanding its operations to create a Maui hub.
The company says the new hub will offer improved connections between Maui and other points within the Hawaiian Islands as well as flights to and from the West Coast.
“This investment in our core business here in Hawaii will increase service between Maui and other neighbor islands by 25 percent, and answer a need identified by our kama‘aina travelers,” said Hawaiian Airlines president and CEO, Mark Dunkerley.
Hawaiian is increasing its daily neighbor island schedule by an additional 23 to 25 flights over the next several weeks.
More than half of the added flights will serve the new Maui hub with one-third providing additional nonstop service between Maui and both Hawaii Island and Kauai.
Hawaiian is supporting the expanded flight schedule with the three Boeing 717-200 jets that it recently acquired.
Hawaiian is also reintroducing nonstop service to Maui from Los Angeles in June, which will bring to five the number of U.S. mainland gateway cities that Hawaiian is providing nonstop service to Maui, along with Seattle, Las Vegas, Oakland, and San José.
Hawaiian is also retiming the arrival of its twice-weekly nonstop flights to Maui from Las Vegas in order to accommodate neighbor island flight connections.
It is also adjusting other neighbor island flight schedules to increase connectivity with its nonstop mainland services to and from Maui.
The company says the new Maui hub recognizes Maui’s growth as a visitor destination and its development as a transit point for neighbor island and mainland travel.
